Melsonby Yorkshire Family History Guide
Melsonby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: East Layton.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1574
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1615
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MELSONBY, a village and a parish in Richmond district, N. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands 5½ miles N by E of Richmond, and 5½ NNW of Scorton r. station; and has a post office under Darlington.
The parish comprises 2,669 acres. Real property, £3,973. Pop., 471. Houses, 106. The property is much subdivided.
The manor belongs to Messrs. Swan, Clough, and Co. of York. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here in the time of Henry II., was destroyed before the Reformation, and has left some traces.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £809. Patron, University College, Oxford. The church is ancient but good.
There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school, and charities £9.
A railway 6¾ miles long, to the Darlington and Barnard-Castle line, was authorized in 1866.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Richmond (Yorkshire)
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the
- Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Richmond
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Richmond
- Poor Law Union: Richmond
- Hundred: West Gilling
- Province: York